Cutting implement



A. GRUNIG CUTTING IMPLEMENT Filed Aug. 8, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet Patented Apr. 9, l929.

narran stares? ALBERT GRNIG, OF BRESLAU, GERMANY.

CUTTING IMPLEMENT.

Application filed August 8, 1927, Serial No. 211,512, and in Germany May 29, 1926.

This invention relates to a cuttingv implement involving a lever tor cutting, pressing, clamping, jumping and similaitools or machine tools or intended for use in connection rvith such tools. rFhc object ot the invention resides chiefly therein to subdivide the working procedure into several phases so that the power to be applied, and the stress to be caused thereby, is only a part ot the power required and the stress caused if that subdivision is not effected.

Another object of the invention consists, especially as regard cutting tools and cutting machine tools, therein to commence all phases or portionsI ot' the entire cutting procedure with equally favorable first cuttings in order to obtain the most favorable lever action and eiect possible at every phase or portion of that procedure.

Still another object oi' the invention consists therein to produce a rope cutting device 'lor motor cars and the like which is able to cut through a wire rope or the like stretched across a street or road'. This device is so designed that the motor car etc. equipped with it and encountering a transversely stretched rope and cutting it docsv not experience a detriinentally strong shock, but only a slight and negligible one by reason ot the subdivision oit the cutting action, as well as of the power applied in effecting it. I am aware oit the existence ot wire rope cutting devices tor thepurpose stated, but it is also known to me that the cars concerned experience a very severe shock when the device becomes very suddenly active, and it the rope is somewhat thick the eltect of the device isvery q cstionable, itt not the reverse ot what ought to be.

T he invention is illustrated diagrammatieally and by way oit' example on the accompanying drawing on which Figures 1-3 are side-views of one constructional term .ot a device designed according to this invention in three diiterent positions corresponding to the subdivision ot a cutting procedure into three phases or portions, or to these three phases or portions respectively, and Figures 4 and 5 are two side-views of another constructional form in which two cutting members form a kind of scissors, Fig. 4 showing the first of three phases or cutting actions, and Fig. 5 showingthe third, the second being omitted. Figure 6 is a side-view ot a motor car provided with a rope cutting device designed according to this invention, Figures 7,

8 and 9 show the details of this device, drawn to a greatly enlarged scale relatively to Fig. 6, and Figure lO is a vertical transverse section in the plane A-BC of Fig. 7.

In the drawing, l (Figs. 1-3) denotes a cuttinglever, the lower edge ot which is de-` signed as a cutting edge 2, whereas the upper edge is provided with tooth-like projections 3, 3b, 3C engaging successively recesses 4EL 4b 4c provided in a stationary abutment member 4. In the normal or initial position of the lever l its projection 3a engages the recess 4"L of the member 4. G denotes a work-piece to be cut through. Either this (or any other) work-piece is shoved against the cutting edge 2 ot the lever l, or the lever l is shoved towardsthe work-piece until its cutting-edge 2 contacts with the saine. The werk-piece 6 is supported upon a table 5 and the portion to be cut on" projects over the respective rim ot' that table.

the projection 3 will leave the recess 4=L and the projection 3l will enter into the recess 4h (Fig' l/Vhen the parts have arrived in the position Fig. 2 about one third ot the cutting operation has been completed, a subsequent. third ot such operation being completed while the projection 3" of the lever in cooperation with the recess 4b of the member 4, the final third oi" the cutting operation being completedduring cooperation ot the projection 3c oic the lever and thc recess 4 ot the member 4. ln the position Fig. 3 of the parts the cutting operation is nearly completed. The cutting operation is obviously subdivided into aplurality of phases, the number oil which depends upon the number oit the projections or teeth of the -lever l and the reu casses or gaps olf the member 4. It is a matter ot course, that not only said projections or teeth enter into said recesses or gaps, but that also the projections or teeth ot the member 4 enter into the recesses or gaps of the member l. At any rate, the power applied is subdivided according` to the number of the supporting points provided at the member' l, or at the member 4 respectively, and the stress to which these members are subjected is subdivided correspondingly.

rihe levers may be arrangedin pairs, as in Figs. 4 and 5, in such a manner, that the two cutting members pertaining kto a pair term a kind ot scissors. ln these Figs. (4 and 5) similar numerals of reference denote similar parts as in Figs. l-S, except the numerals l t l l When then the work-pie G is moved to the lett or the lever l to the right lll) i in Figs. ,7-10.

edges and the work-piece when the cutting commences is only smalland always of the same size.

Cutting levers designed according to `this invention are particularly suitedftor use in connection .with motor-cars to cut through a rope stretchedacross the street or road Jfor criminal reasons, as pointed to already in the Vintroductory part of this specification. l?

G shows a motor car I equippedv in .this manner. rlhe rope intercepting, guiding and cutting device S, 9 (8 being rope intercepting and guiding arms, and 9 the body or casing f enclosing the levers `with their cutting edges and some other. parts hereinafter described) arranged infront of' the radiator 7'"L and supported by rods 21 andQQ allixed to the underiframe ot the car. rlhe detailsare shown 'ilhere is also in this case a pair ot movable members 1n and 1" cobperating with stationary members 1just as in Figs. 4 and 5. The body oi the dev-ice consists of two vertical plates 9 and 10 (Fig. 10) which are kept remote trom .one another by intermediate iron pieces 11n' and 11) (11 being located side by side with the upper member fl, and 11') side by side with the lower member 4t), 12@L and 12", 13 vand A@ and 111b (these latter two pieces being made integral with the arms 8). The upper arm 8 may be so attached to the body oit the device 'that it can be turned down when there is lno danger ot encountering a vstretched rope, as ior instance at day-time or on a street or road where there are no trees at the sides thereof.

The body plates 9 and 10 enclose a space in which the n'iovable members 1a and 1b of the levers are housed, more precisely, are so housed that they can bemoved only in their planes. rlhe cutting member 1"y is located at the side of the body plate 9, the cutting member 1b at the side of the body plate 10 (Fig. 10). The cutting .member 1"' is, furthermore, provided lwith a pin 15 contacting with a iiat spring` 16 attached at one ,of its ends to a pin 18n and resting at its other endupon a pin 17a. ln the same manner the cutting member 1b is provided with a pin 15b contactwith a tlatsin'ing 16b attached at one of its ends to a piu 18b and resting at its other end upon a pin' 17",.

rllhesliape oi? the cutting edges 2L and 21 diiiiers from Figs. 1 5 by reason of the particu f purpose of the device in question, and the rear portions of the-cutting members overlap one another with lugs 19TV1 and 19h, these lugs,.iorming `abutments -orthe rope encountered, as .in Figs. 7 and 8 in which 2O denotes the rope.. Fig. 7 shows the movable parts in their position of rest in which they lare held by the springs 1G"L and 16 and the pins land 15". members 1n and 1b relatively to the stationary ,men'ibersl is` the sameas in i.

The position. of the cutting lllhen the cutting members encounter' a rope, as in Figui, and are turned rearwardly by the same, the rope being now. cut through, the stationary. intermediate part 13 or the .body otv the device acts-as an alnitmentlmember for the cutting members,.as in Fig. 9. Fig. 8 shows an intermediate position.

llhe stationary members l are connected with the .body plates yby detachable bolts-23 and 24. l.When the cuttingedges Qaiand 2b require sharpening, the bolts 23 and 24am detached, as are then also` the ,membershas well as 1n andl".

Owing to the existence of three projections or teeth 3, 3b, 3 (asalsoin Figs. 1 5), the cutting of the rope proceeds in three consecutive phasesfollowing one another without anyinterruption. Vlhe three paths ofthe cutting memberssare indicated by the angles a., and y in F 7 9. The sameangles are indicated in Figs. 1 3, and the angle a is indicated in Fig. 4l.v While the cutting members are moved rearwardly as much as correspondsto the an gle a, the rope is cut through partly; another part oi the rope is cut through while the cutting member pass through the angle and the rest is cut through `while they pass through the angle y. All thisapplies to Figs. 1 3.

I wish it to be understood that the invention is not limited to cutting devices, but can be usefully employed wherever a pressure is .to be exerted. rll`he invention can be used in connection with punches, presses, clamping couplings, clamping devices, and the like, and the number of the supporting points (3, 43,31, 4b, 3, 4) is by no means limited to three at each member, .but there may either be only two, or iour kor `more than four, justas best suited inthe particular case, the powerapplied vbeing always correspondingly subdivided.

1 claim: v

1. A cutting implement including-a cutting lever `formed with a cutting edge, that end of the lever remotefrom the cuttingedge being constructed to provide a plurality ofspaced fulcrum points successively functioning` as the lever is moved in cutting direction, a lined member formed with recesses to successively receive the'fulcrum points oii the lever, the cooperation of the successive Afulcrum points with the recesses aryino' the leverage to reduce the power required or'the cuttingA stroke as compared with a single viulcrum point for the lever, and means cooperating with the cutting edge oi' the lever to cause the material to be cut to be operatively engaged by seid edge.

2. A cutting implement including` a plurality of cutting levers having their proXimete edges 'formed for cooperation in cutting', the remote edges of the respective levers presenting' :i plurality of spaced projections, and iixed means to successively receive tlie spaced projections ot the levers during` the cutting operation to permit euch of said projections to Ytorni a 'liulcriun for its lever for a portion only ot the cutting strokes of suoli levers.

3. A pair of levers on opposite sides of a common plane and the outer end of each lever being so designed as to present several supporting` points adapted to become active one after the other, an abutment for the outer ends of said levers, the edges of the adjacent ends oit said levers being; designed as cutting ed ges adapted to cooperate, e lateral projection on each lever, spring so arranged with respect to seid projections to hold open the scissors formed by seid cutting` edges, und ineens for holding the springs in position.

ln testimony whereof l afx niy signature.

DR. ALBERT ennuie. 

